In Italy, Oxem Group has commenced construction on a 60 Mgy canola-based biodiesel plant near Pavia, in Lombardy. Oxem will invest $100 million in the project that will utilize feedstock from France, Germany, Romania and Hungary. Last year, only 45,000 hectares of Italian crops produce d feedstock for biodiesel, insufficient for the Oxem plant’s needs.
In Italy, the Italian Biodiesel Association said that five new biodiesel plants are ready to come online and will increase national biodiesel capacity from 1.9 million tons and to 2.7 million tons. Ho...
In Washington State, Inland Empire Oilseeds announced that it had commenced shipments of canola-based B100 biodiesel this week, with an initial shipment of 33,000 gallons. The facility has a rated 8 M...
The European Union (EU) increased biodiesel production to 1.2 billion gallons in 2006, up 54% from 2005, according to the European Biodiesel Board. The Board's latest report shows 185 biodiesel plants...
In Italy, the Union of Biodiesel Producers announced its $14 million Mambo project to produce biodiesel from algae within five years. The group is working with scientists at the University of Florence...
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In Washington, the US Department of Energy awarded $86 million to three cellulosic ethanol projects in Maine, Tennessee and Kentucky. The four-year grants will produce an average of 2.5 ...
In Canada, construction is about to begin on Canadian Bioenergy's 60 Mgy conola-based biodiesel plant northeast of Edmonton. The $90-million plant will commence operation in 2009. Canola is provin...
